Wave of Deaths Spreads: Hundreds of Millions Mysteriously Disappear!

Zhengzhou boss sets ICBC branch on fire after bank blocks his withdrawal as rural banks vanish across China. No orders, no customers. China's Great Depression is here empty streets, empty malls. Chinese marriage tastes like a checkout counter. Men and women are going all out against each other. China's deaths. Hit a 6-5, year high, morgues piled high with young people's bodies. 46 generals stripped of National People's Congress, deputy posts, CCP Military Election Committee list goes viral. Welcome to Red Wall, where we examine major world events with clarity, context, and thoughtful analysis. Zhengzhou boss sets ICBC branch on fire after bank blocks his withdrawal as rural banks vanish across China. In recent years, China's economy has been steadily deteriorating, and bank collapses have been frequently reported. On September 2, the overseas ex-blogger Luo Xiang forwarded a tip stating that after problems exploded at Bank of Jiangsu, Bank of Zhengzhou in Henan also collapsed. A boss planned to pay salaries to 500 employees and went to an industrial and commercial Bank of China branch in Zhengzhou to withdraw money. Because the bank had no money, it found various excuses to block the withdrawal. Enraged, he set the branch on fire. Video footage shows flames rising behind an ICBC branch. A fire truck arrives, and firefighters begin extinguishing the blaze. Residents stand across the street watching. Netizens side one after another. This society is full of fighting evil with evil. How are people supposed to live? ICBC isn't some small rural bank. The fire has finally spread to the four major state-owned banks. The timetable has moved one step closer. Some said even the bank's bad debts got burned. A lot of people should be able to sleep soundly now. Perfect. All the messy accounts are settled. Others viewed it as the result of the CCP's wrongdoing. This wave is classic. Officials force the people to rebel and drive them up liangshan. Directly freezing ordinary people's life savings? It would be strange if something major didn't happen. The CCP has no regard for law and is openly tearing off its mask to rob people, pushing them to the brink. The common people will rise up with bamboo poles and overthrow the dictatorship. On August 29, an online tip exploded with a shocking line. Breaking. It claimed 320 billion yuan was involved, currently implicating 11 banks, and that within two months, it could spread to 40 banks and tens of thousands of outlets. Countless people felt a jolt of fear. Is China's financial system really about to collapse? Will the little money scraped and saved bit by bit become impossible to withdraw? On September 30, the CCP announced that it was going to withdraw all of its money. On September 2, the same blogger forwarded a screenshot of Bank of Jiangsu's reply to a customer. The loan agency business jointly operated by Jiangsu Bank and Ctrip has been suspended. Large amount withdrawals are now restricted. Small amount withdrawals are limited to a total of no more than 500 yuan per day and no more than four times per month. The restriction period ends on the 1st of September, 2028. The blogger also forwarded a video in which a woman accused the bank of the disappearance of her 29 million yuan in deposits. She said that on March 3 this year, director Zhang of Bank of Jiangsu confirmed on the spot that the supervised account was normal and funds could be transferred. Afterward, she transferred in 29 million yuan, but all the funds vanished. Bank staff shifted responsibility. Her rights protection videos had been taken down multiple times. Netizens wrote, As the economy has continued to decline, industries have been downsizing. According to a Times Securities Times Times report on April 21, in the roughly 100 days from the start of 2026 to April 20, 72 rural banks completed deregistration and exit. In the same period last year, the figure was 27, a year-on-year surge of 167%. Data from the National Financial Regulatory Administration show that in 2025, a total of 226 rural banks completed deregistration, compared with 83 in 2024, 9 in 2023, and 8 in 2022. A document issued by the Jiangsu Financial Regulatory Bureau on April 30 approved the dissolution of Jiangsu Dafeng Jiangnan Rural Bank, inherited by Jiangsu Jiangnan Rural Commercial Bank. The same day, Tianjin Rural Commercial Bank established 10 branches that succeeded the dissolved Tianjin Jinan Rural Bank. Qingdao Rural Commercial Bank absorbed Qingdao Jimo Huimin Rural Bank. In Yunnan, Tengchong Minsheng Rural Bank was dissolved and taken over by Minsheng Bank. Tongnan Minsheng Rural Bank in Chongqing was likewise dissolved. Previously, on 26 December 2025, Minsheng Bank had already absorbed Puerh Minsheng Rural Bank and Ningchi Minsheng Rural Bank, turning them into branches. When even ICBC is accused of blocking a payroll withdrawal and rural banks are disappearing by the dozen, the last safety line for ordinary people's savings looks less like a line than a fuse. No orders, no customers. China's Great Depression is here empty streets, empty malls. Vloggers keep filming the same country. Shops that ran 10 years are hanging on a few regulars. Eight in the morning, grocery hour, and the aisle is empty. Factories close in stretches. New sheds still go up. Rent them to who? There are no orders. Nobody's even in the market. So what if you drop your price? Foshan used to pass for developed Guangdong. A vlogger said 90% of people there cannot sleep supermarket owners, Longjiang showrooms on both sides are for rent. The road that used to choke on trucks is quiet. Real estate dies first in renovation. Ceramics is the snapshot. The men who drank through the boom do not come out. A model appears and is copied. Less material, lower price, a death loop. January through July, national development investment was 4.3 trillion yuan, about $640 billion. Down 19.2% worse than the first half print. New starts down 24%. Completions down 23.2%. New home sales floor space down 11.8%. In counties that used to look rich, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai's edge wages keep falling. After social insurance, some young people eat on what is left and still miss the mortgage. 10 yuan an hour. Interview day, 2,200 minus 400 for insurance, a little over 1,000. Shanghai and Hangzhou kids come home and bid the same jobs down. Shanghai is about 4% of national GDP and used to sit at the top. Since the three COVID years, it has not found its feet. End of July, not one of 31 provincial-level governments hit 100% fiscal self-sufficiency. Combined rate 56.3%. Even Shanghai is in the red. Foreign names keep leaving. Felorga, a Korean line called hints, Sherwin-Williams shutting the Asia-Pacific HQ. Nokia took back Shanghai Bell and cut Hangzhou, then thinned Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Qingdao. Greater China headcount from about 13,700 in 2020 to around 7,200. Bosses who did not see it coming are poor again. Bathhouses, construction, tech, every trade dead. A man in his 30s pulled gray hair back. Over 10 million a year. A villa, a million yuan Porsche. Sold 25 million in assets, still 3.2 million in debt. Food delivery by day, street stall by night. Six shops to nothing in five years. July urban jobless rate for one six- to two-four-year-olds, students out, hit 17.9%, an 11-month high. Outside China, the guess is that the real number is about twice the official one. Two people try to plant for an hour, no air conditioning, squat on the floor, and left. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, bags on their backs. Pay too low, no men, no older workers, no degree. The family still thinks there is a wage. Night on a station tile to save the hotel money for rice and medicine. Trash bins get picked eight times a day. Fights over the same bag. Second quarter GDP, 4.3%. Slower than 5% in the first, weakest quarter in more than three years. First half, 4.7%. July industry, 4.5%. Retail, 0.6%. Late August, the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission, Xi Jinping's own shop, ran four days of essays. Do not stare at speed. Do not fuss over one month. Hong Kong's Ming Pao said a few articles will not sing the bright story. Chin Peng, in the United States, read the same pieces as Xi talking past the ministries. Three admissions. The economy is shrinking. Investment is not coming back. There will be no flood of stimulus. Save the economy with no cash, or save the regime. Limited money, he said, will not land in ordinary pockets. It will go to a high-tech Cold War, energy bunkers, and the stability machine. The streets already know which choice was made. Chinese marriage tastes like a checkout counter. Men and women are going all out against each other. If you have to choose between a rich guy and a handsome guy, which do you pick? The rich one. She is 21. Looks do not matter without money. 35 is fine. 14 years older. Divorced with a kid is fine. A mistress on the side is fine, as long as he gives me money. On the other side of the table, if your son gets married and they ask for 500,000 yuan as bride price, would you pay it? No. An ordinary family might not scrape that together in a lifetime. It is a twisted demand. Smash the pot, sell the iron, and they will have another list tomorrow. Can a marriage like that ever be happy? The argument on the street is raw. Women call men poor and useless. The reply is that many of them arrive with an empty basin and still talk. Youth and a face are the resume. I'm pretty. Go look again. The power is about to be cut off. An American man in a park matchmaking clip was told he would not need a bride price at all. Citizenship was the price. Banks, subway stations, malls, and supermarkets now stamp marriage certificates. The joke writes itself. You cannot find the civil affairs office. Parents of sons are saying it out loud. Cancel the bride price. Cancel the engagement banquet. Cancel the three jin and five jin. Cancel the nameless fees. They will not pay. Full-time motherhood with no in-law help and no wage looks. To some women, like unpaid labor with no insurance and no right to go home for the holiday, enter carefully, lose the gamble, and the divorce court can send you out with nothing. Men have put the guard up. Too many gold diggers, they say. So even a decent girl gets a waiting period. Good women get caught in the same net. Why won't he spend or text first? Because one chat turns into a missing bag, a dying lipstick, a lease, a birthday. Low-quality dating, one man said, is worse than high-quality single life. Why do women file most of the divorces? Because the filing can be a harvest. Jiashenshin, after several divorces, is worth tens of millions in the telling. Change the rule so the first to file walks out of the house, and the rate would freeze. Give a wife, a house, and a car for free, the same voice said. And in three years, you are broker than dirt. The parent's script is the part that makes the room go quiet. Mouths open on bride price, gifts, name on the deed. The daughter was raised as a princess. The son was blown in by the wind. Families that demand a high price are selling a daughter. Families that pay it are admitting the son has no spine. Both sides lose face. A friend spent nearly $1.4 million last year, car, house, parking space, $100,000 cash, the wedding. Four months later, divorce. Decades of savings gone in a week. The guts, they said, have turned green. Over 60 and still carrying bricks, sweeping streets, or sitting a guard booth to fill the hole left by a wedding. Two quilts and a sewing machine used to start a life. Now it is hundreds of thousands, plus a house, plus a car. And you smile and say, of course. We raised a son, not an ATM. University was the mission. Marriage is his ability. Spend a million. Here, we're incompatible, and you have run a poverty alleviation program for someone else's child. Shenzhen has flipped toward women chasing men with a paycheck and a stable job. Age and a prior marriage on his side still sell. Past 30 on her side, the odds drop even if the face is still there. The maid wants the young master. The young master marries the matching family. The CEO never arrives. Even the hired hand stops answering. Work is one kind of hardship. Marriage, a woman married more than 20 years said, is 10,000. Up at 530, kids, job, laundry. If you are lazy and do not want children or a house to run, do not sign. Love, marriage, and happiness are not the same file. Some mothers will not empty $200,000 or $300,000 for a daughter-in-law. Out of 10 young couples, eight will not finish the course. No other country's men get flayed three layers just to marry. That is not a slogan. It is the bill sitting on ordinary kitchen tables. The law and the custom trained both sides to treat a wedding like a raid. Trust left the room first. The certificate booths in the supermarket will not bring it back. China's deaths hit a 6-5, year-high, morgues-piled high with young people's bodies. An essay circulating on Taotiao under the name Huan Siyan put the line in the headline. In the next three years, the country will face an earth-shaking wave of deaths. More than 32 million people, it said, in three short years, a silent population storm. The piece insisted it was not scaremongering. It pointed at the National Bureau of Statistics. The Bureau's 2025 count was 11.31 million deaths, a mortality rate of 8.04 per thousand, the highest since 1960. The three-year run behind it, 11.1 million in 2023, 10.93 million in 2024, 11.31 million in 2025. Total, 33.34 million, already past 32 million. Fudan University's Institute of Population Research, the essay said, sees annual deaths climbing from 11.5 million in 2026 toward 14 million by 2030, with a peak that could near 19 million, almost 70 percent above today's level. The demographic engine in that forecast is not a mystery. From 1962 to 1973, China had its biggest birth bulge. More than 25 million births a year, more than 300 million in 12 years. The youngest of that cohort are 53. The oldest are 64. They are walking into the ages where death rates steepen. Three to four percent a year on 300 million elderly is already more than 10 million. 2026 through 2028 is the window when that bulge retires most densely and the death curve bends up. Outside China, the official ledger has been treated as incomplete since the COVID outbreak that began at the end of 2019. The party forced a national shot campaign. Chinese CDC figures cited in the discussion put coverage above 1.27 billion by 13 January 2023, with full course rates above 90 percent of the population. Civilian bloggers have been saying the 2,025 dead are not only the old. In May 2025, Douyin account Xishui Nianhua posted that the death tsunami caused by vaccines has already arrived. A colleague had called. Two death notices from HR in less than two hours. Both young. Both previously healthy. The blogger wrote that four years earlier he had seen the day coming. You and I firmly refuse the vaccine. Lao Penggan Yan filmed a village of fewer than 2,000 people that cremated three in one day. A normal year, he said, should be about 10. On July 25, Xibo Funeral Cemetery Old Lu was blunt. The crematory's heaviest traffic is not the elderly. It is post-8-0-S and post-9-0-S. Night shift is sudden deaths. Late nights. Overtime. Worked to death. The next one could be you. Sudden death is not news. It is young people that we cannot finish burning every day. An August 8 clip said the same. Not post-5-0-S and post-6-0-S. Post-7-0-S. Post-8-0-S. Post-9-0-S. Early shift sudden deaths. Late shift middle aged. There are far too many. On May 6, the WeChat account Shenbu Longtong published, Unfortunately, my words came true. The sequelae of three shots have erupted. Neighbors on site during the May Day holiday. A back end that had become a wailing wall for vaccine victims. The piece traveled inside and outside the firewall. Blogger Rin compiled 815 cases from 2,025 mainland media of public figures, officials, police and court staff, business people, teachers, doctors, lawyers, celebrities, influencers and ordinary names who died or fell ill framed as a New Year ledger of CCP chaos and a vaccine disaster. The conditions listed in that discourse run from myocarditis and nodules to cancer, leukemia and sudden death after three domestic doses. Those are claims circulating in public posts, not a court finding. A Sohu article on the 16th of February 2025 said 7th census supplements showed the post 8-0-S survival rate at 94.8% by the end of 2024, a 5.2% mortality rate, 1 in 20 gone. More than 10 million out of about 223 million with the older post 7-0-S dying at a lower rate. The article was deleted. The authorities issued an urgent rebuttal. Many readers treated the rebuttal as the confirmation. The party can bury a Sohu page. It cannot bury a 1960s birth peak that is now aging or a 2025 death total. It published itself as a 65-year high. What it will not do is let the unofficial line that the young are in the furnace next to the old sit unchallenged. The essay on Tutiao used the bureau's own numbers and called the next three years a storm. The men on the night shift at the crematory are describing a different age mix than the one in the forecast slides. Both stories are now on the same street. 46 generals stripped of National People's Congress, deputy posts, CCP Military Election Committee list goes viral. A list of the Communist Party's Military Election Committee is circulating online once again. It contains 11 names. Nine of them have already fallen. Separately from that document, 46 senior officers have been publicly stripped of their seats as deputies to the 14th National People's Congress, 22 full generals, 18 lieutenant generals, and 6 major generals. Xinhua reported that the 24th session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee closed on the afternoon of August 28. Twelve people lost their deputy posts that day. Four were military officers, Zhang Yuxia, Liu Zhenli, Zhu Gansheng, and Zhang Xiaojun. In early 2023, the armed forces' 26 electoral units had selected 281 military deputies. The NPC website now lists 233. The missing 46 represent the public cut. Almost all of the 22 full generals on the Epoch Times compilation were men whom Xi Jinping himself had promoted and ranked. The roster runs through the Central Military Commission and the services, Zhang Yuxia and He Weidong as vice chairman, Liu Zhenli at the Joint Staff Department, Miao Hua at the Political Work Department, Li Shengfu as defense minister, Rocket Force Commanders Li Yuchao and Zhou Yaning, Air Force Commander Ding Laihong, and Armed Police Commander Wang Chuning. The lieutenant generals include Zhang Zhenzhong, Zhang Yulin, Li Chuangguang, Zhu Xinchun, Li Zhizhong, Yin Hongxing, and Zhang Xiaojunxi's longtime military secretary, whose removal was confirmed only when the August 28 notice dropped his NPC seat. The six major generals are Rao Wenmin, Sun Bin, Bian Rufeng, Liu Hong, Ding Laifu of the 73rd Group Army, and Yang Guang of Rocket Force Base, 64. Since the 20th Party Congress in October 2022, Xi had appeared to have settled into his third term. More than three years later, these purges have torn the army's vital energy. The Election Committee is the body that stages the military's so-called deputy elections and checks qualifications. On 30 December 2022, the NPC Standing Committee named 11 members. Now, only Zhang Shengmin and Wang Chengnan remain. The other nine have been removed. The dates stack up. Li Shengfu fell on 31 August 2023 and received a death sentence with a two-year reprieve on 7 May 2026. He, Weidong, Miaohua, He, Hongjun, and six others were placed under case review on 17 October 2025 and later expelled. Sun Bin lost his seat on 28 October 2025. Wang Renhua and seven others followed on 27 December 2025. Zhang Yuxia and Liu Zhenli were announced as fallen on 24 January 2026. Their NPC seats were revoked in August. Fang Yongsheng was named to the committee in September 2024, apparently taking Zhang's place. At the fourth plenum in October 2025, his promotion from alternate to full central committee member was skipped. He has been missing since. Zhang Shengmin took He Weidong's vice chairmanship on the committee in December 2025. On September 1, Kai Shenkun posted a Xinhua clip from just after the 20th Congress that ended with a single character in parentheses. Wan, which means complete or finished. In just a few short years, all the people on the list are finished. Users interpreted it as discard the donkey after the mill is done and linked the times wan times to times wanden times doomed. From 2023 onward, 32 full generals have been investigated and punished. 25 more have vanished. 57 full generals have been in trouble since the Congress. Chen Pocong told NTDTV that Xi is unpopular both in the party and in the army, and that even the Xi faction has lost confidence and, in places, rebelled. Jian Yi, writing in Times Vision Times, observed that some of the purged may now wish they had taken a chance at the beginning, echoing the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang line. Fleeing means death. Rising means death. If death is the same either way, better to die for the country. He pointed to Xu Qinsheng, who refused to march on Beijing in 1989. History preserved that name. The question Jian left hanging is whether anyone still in uniform will choose Zhang Yuxia's cell or Xu's path. Depression, he wrote, is no longer a room they have. We value your perspective. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. If you found this report meaningful, please share it with others. Your support helps us continue delivering independent, fact-based analysis on global affairs. Subscribe and like to stay informed with Redwall. Thank you for watching.